The Menards Guy.
excited TV pitchman who told watchers they could "spare enormous cash" at Wisconsin-based home improvement chain Menards has kicked the bucket. Beam Szmanda was 91. Szmanda's child, Charles Szmanda, says his dad kicked the bucket Sunday in home hospice care in Antigo, Wisconsin, of congestive heart menards tm disappointment. Beam Szmanda was included in publicizing for Eau Claire-based Menard Inc. beginning in 1976 until his retirement in 1998. He was known as "The Menards Guy." A Milwaukee local and World War II Navy veteran, Szmanda established a telecom school in Wausau. He additionally portrayed a chronicle of the Bible. Menards said Szmanda's "amicable, excited and carefree identity have established a long term connection" on the family-possessed organization and its clients. Menards has stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisc